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"When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space World, a new theme park on Hampstead Heath, UNIT is called in to investigate. The Doctor is highly suspicious. Just who controls the Parakon Corporation, the shadowy organisation behind the running of the park? What is 'Experienced Reality' and what are the limits of its awesome powers?" https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Paradise_of_Death_(audio_story)
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Topics: doctor who, doctor who audio, dr who, bbc audio, doctor who paradise of death, paradise of death,...
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Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Commended by critics for his gritty realism and strong dialogue, Stephen King places Leonard in the same company as John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but Leonard himself felt more influenced by Ernest...
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The complete canon of the Brontë sisters’ classic novels, dramatised for BBC Radio by bestselling author Rachel Joyce These radio dramas boast star casts including Anna Maxwell Martin, Ellie Kendrick, Amanda Hale, Tom Burke, Lesley Sharp, Paul Venables, Robert Lonsdale, Ben Batt and Chloe Pirrie. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Orphan Jane falls in love with the enigmatic Rochester, but he is concealing a dark secret. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë On the bleak Yorkshire moors, Heathcliff...
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Audio: 320kbps from 320kbps source Mort - Terry Pratchett On the lookout for an apprenticeship, young Mort comes across a man in a black cloak. The fourth of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld. Dramatised in four parts by Robin Brooks. Director: Claire Grove First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. CAST Narrated by Anton Lesser Mort ...... Carl Prekopp Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Lezek ...... Philip Fox Albert ...... Phillip Jackson Hames ...... Jon Glover...
Topics: Discworld, Death, Grim Reaper, Comedy, Fantasy, BBC Radio
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Presented by Nicholas Parsons, here are some e pisodes of "Just a Minute" from 2014 and 2015. With Paul Merton. And guests: Russell Kane, Josie Lawrence, Sheila Hancock, Miles Jupp, Holly Walsh, Graham Norton, Tony Hawks, Joe Lycett, Kevin Eldon, Rebecca Front, Alun Cochrane and Richard Herring.
Topics: just a minute, jam, bbc, bbc radio, bbc radio four, bbc radio 4, comedy, panel game, panel show,...
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Just a Minute episodes (1994-2004 period). Some episodes of "Just a Minute" chaired by Nicholas Parsons. With Paul Merton, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones and Clement Freud. And with guests Stephen Fry, Julian Clary, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Tony Hawks, Maria McErlane, Martin Jarvis, Graham Norton and Liza Tarbuck. bbc, comedy, bbc comedy, radio, bbc radio, series, bbc series, stephen fry, episodes, british, english, england, uk, united kingdom, radio comedy, radio series
Topics: bbc, comedy, bbc comedy, radio, bbc radio, series, bbc series, stephen fry, episodes, british,...
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BBC radio productions of the finest works of Wilkie Collins, a sensation novelist, an early master of the mystery story and pioneer of detective fiction. Wilkie Collins was one of Victorian England's best-loved and best-selling authors, and a crime-fiction pioneer. His enthralling 'sensation novels' such as The Woman in White paved the way for today's thrillers and his tour de force The Moonstone is one of the first, and greatest, modern-detective stories. This collection features...
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A collection of speculative fiction dramas from BBC Radio 3. Life is a Radio in the Dark When Davey Maskelyne embarks upon sonic therapy to restore his memory so that he can help solve a crime, the treatment leads to a reckoning with a past he never believed he could recover. The play wittily tangles with questions of loss and memory. What is a person without a past? Might we be better living in the moment? And how does sound give us a more profound experience of that past? Davey Maskelyne...
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Keith Spencer Waterhouse was a British novelist, newspaper columnist and the writer of many films and television series. His credits, many with lifelong friend and collaborator Willis Hall, include satires such as That Was The Week That Was, BBC-3 and The Frost Report during the 1960s; Budgie; Worzel Gummidge; and Andy Capp (an adaptation of the comic strip). Collected here are BBC Radio presentations of four Waterhouse stories: Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell A recreation of a time in London when...
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Agatha Christie
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Audio: 320kbps from 320kbps AAC-LC source Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. Thriller first published in 1937 and dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell. Director: Enyd Williams First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1997. CAST Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt Mrs Allerton …. Rosemary Leach Pennington …. Stratford Johns Joanna Southwood …. Joanna Monro Linnet Ridgeway …. Elaine Pyke Monsieur Blondin …. Sean...
Topics: Hercule Poirot, Egypt, Nile, Whodunit, BBC Radio, Crime
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Francis Durbridge
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Audio File Quality: 64kbps Paul Temple and the Alex Affair - A Francis Durbridge Mystery Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. CAST Paul Temple …. Peter Coke Steve …. Marjorie Westbury Sir Graham Forbes …. James Thomason Inspector Crane …. Haydn Jones ‘Spider’ Williams …. Alan Dudley Mulroy …. Michael Harbour Lady Weyman …. Betty Hardy...
Topics: Paul Temple, Francis Durbrdige, Crime, Mystery, Whodunit, BBC Radio
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Audio: 320kbps from 320kbps AAC-LC source The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries - Dame Ngaio Marsh four adaptations of Dame Ngaio Marsh's tales of the gentleman detective. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Director: Enyd Williams First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000 - April 2003. More information : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaio_Marsh CAST Episode 1: CDI Alleyn ...... Jeremy Clyde Detective Inspector Fox .... Tim Treloar Martyn Tarne .... Beth Chalmers Adam Poole .... Michael Cochrane...
Topics: Inspector Alleyn, Classic Detective Mysteries
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Francis Durbridge
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Audio File Quality: 128kbps Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair - Francis Durbridge Holidaying out-of-season in the fishing village of Downburgh, the suave detective faces peril linking mystery deaths with a disappearance. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife Between 1938 and 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave amateur detective Paul Temple and...
Topics: Francis Durbridge, Paul Temple, Crime, Murder Mystery, Whodunit, BBC Radio
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Dec 1, 2019
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John Finnemore
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Cabin Pressure Cabin Pressure at Christmas 2009 Bing-bong merrily on high! It's Xmas morning on board MJN Air, but when Carolyn schedules an extra stop-off to the Hawaiian island of Molokai, Arthur has just seven minutes to celebrate Xmas. How can Douglas and Martin make this the best Xmas Arthur's ever had when all they have on board are some custard creams and a Russian oligarch... With special guest Ben Willbond ("Horrible Histories") Cast: Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie...
Topics: Comedy, Radio, English
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William Somerset Maugham was one of the most successful English writers of the 20th century and remains the most adapted for film and TV. This collection includes seven of his novels and plays, dramatised by BBC radio. The Moon and Sixpence - respectable stockbroker Charles Strickland abandons his wife and children to live as a painter in Paris and Tahiti. Starring Ronald Pickup and Patrick Allen. The Painted Veil - first published in 1925 to a storm of protest, this is a haunting, poignant...
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A collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of the best-known works of Thomas Hardy. Renowned novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is best known for his fatalistic, often tragic novels set in the 'realistic dream-country' of Wessex, in south and south-west England. Drawing on his own life, he created some of the most memorable characters and stories in Victorian literature. In five dramas from Radio 4's 'Hardy's Women' season, Thomas Hardy's most compelling female protagonists are featured. The Hand of...
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Atomic Tales A series of 1950s American sci-fi spoofs Their Gaze Was Green Space heroes Jack and Chip tackle green Venusian terrorists. And Mother Makes Millions A chilling world without children? The battle is on to save the human race from ravaged Earth. I’ve Got Your Number A man loses his unique numbered identity - and lands in double trouble, when his number gets copied. Land of Plenty In tomorrow’s world, all human food is delivered by Freshmart in sealed mag-cans to the residents of...
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Oct 16, 2022
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The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, if only they’d been made. Now, for the first time, eight of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th-century writers, including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric...
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Aug 4, 2022
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Included here are six full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of Wilde’s plays and novel, as well as readings of a selection of his short stories. A Woman of No Importance At a country house party, Mrs Arbuthnot’s long-concealed...
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Brian Patrick Friel was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He produced over 30 plays in a career spanning six decades and is considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. He has been likened to an "Irish Chekhov" and described as "the universally accented voice of Ireland". His plays have been compared favourably to those of contemporaries such as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and Tennessee...
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Nov 20, 2021
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Audio File Quality: 128kbps The Nine Tailors - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Stranded in a small village after a car accident, Wimsey becomes involved in a mystery of stolen jewels. Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Nine Tailors was first published in 1934. Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon...
Topics: Dorothy L Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey, Crime, Murder Mystery, Whodunit, BBC Radio Drama
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Nov 24, 2022
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Three detective thrillers set in the Metropolitan Police's Missing Persons Bureau After shooting a teenage boy in an undercover operation, DS Sue Manson is taken off the front line and transferred to a desk job in Missing Persons. But no sooner has she arrived than she's in the thick of the action once more, tasked with tracking down a trio of twisted criminals.... Fractions of Zero When a desperate father begs DS Manson to find his daughter, the sole clue is a cryptogram on the back of a...
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Jan 7, 2020
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Steve Coogan
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Knowing Me, Knowing You Spoof chat show starring Steve Coogan as host Alan Partridge With thanks to Alan's researchers: Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon Mackichan and David Schneider. Producer: Armando Iannucci First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992. Episode 1 of 6 A-ha! Legendary squirm-inducing chat show hosted by Norwich's finest son, Alan Partridge. With his guests: novelist Lawrence Camley, feminist Ally Tennant and Carnaby Street's Mr Boutique, Adam Wells....
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Topics: BBC R4 Comedy, Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon...
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Nov 27, 2021
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Audio File Quality: 48kbps (sorry - do not have a better one) So Much Blood - A Charles Paris Mystery Appearing in his own one-man show on Thomas Hood at the Edinburgh Festival, middle-aged actor Charles Paris finds himself falling for a gorgeous young girl with navy-blue eyes. He also finds himself being dragged into a complex murder investigation involving the death of a fading pop star, a bomb scare in Holyrood Palace and a suicide leap from the top of the Rock. Six-part thriller serial...
Topics: Charles Paris, Mystery, Crime, Whodunit, Detective, BBC Radio
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https://www.trussel.com/maig/radio.htm Maigret: Maurice Denham, Simenon: Michael Gough CREDIT GOES TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER
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Topics: bbc, bbc radio, mystery, maigret, detective
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B D Chapman
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BBC science fiction serial written by B D Chapman and broadcast in 14 episodes in 1959. A bold new venture by the British space programme falls prey to a mysterious malign power - can our square-jawed heroes escape deadly peril and save the day?
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Topics: radio, science fiction, sci-fi, Orbiter X, space, spaceship, OTR
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An all-star cast attend a mysterious private club in this hilarious parody of classic horror tales. Membership of the exclusive Mausoleum Club isn't for the faint of heart. The Honorable Clarence Green wants in, but to join he must first hear the spine-chilling stories of the existing members, before enthralling them with one of his own. But are their stories fact or fiction? And will Green still want to join after hearing the horrors they have to tell? A brilliantly unexpected and macabre...
Topics: Radio, Drama
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Mar 19, 2017
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Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Richard Curtis
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BBC Radio 4's spoof local radio station, broadcast in 55 episodes from 1979, written by and starring Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins, with Michael Fenton Stevens, Helen Atkinson-Wood and Philip Pope. A wickedly accurate send-up of radio with egotistic DJs presenting pop music parodies such as The Hee Bee Gees and struggling to keep a lid on the shambles of technical cock-ups, incomprehensible interviewees and sarcastic colleagues. In 1989 it morphed into the TV series KYTV. [S07E03 God Alone...
Topics: Radio Active, radio, comedy, sketches, sketch show, parody, local radio, national local radio
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The Small Intricate Life Of Gerald C Potter The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter brings back Basil Boothroyd’s quietly comic classic from the Seventies, with Ian Carmichael as the amiable crime writer who never quite finishes anything and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife, who does.
Topic: BBC R4 Comedy
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An 18-part serialisation of John Masters' chronicles of the Savage family, spanning the years 1825-1946 and set against the backdrop of British rule in India. Based on the hugely popular novels of John Masters, this landmark BBC Radio series charts the history of the British in India through the perspective of one family over several generations. Ranging over more than 120 years, these thrilling tales of love, murder and espionage take us from the expansion of the East India Company to the last...
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Daphne du Maurier was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as "moody and resonant" with overtones of the paranormal. Her bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by critics, but have since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many have been successfully adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn, and the short...
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The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a ground breaking British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions. It starred two comedy double acts, one being David Baddiel and Rob Newman, the other Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. All four comedians had recently graduated from Cambridge University. A radio pilot was broadcast on 10 March 1989 on BBC Radio 1 and the first series of 12 shows began on 7 April the same year. The format was devised by Bill...
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Topics: Radio, Comedy
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Two boys out sledging in their local park find the body of an old woman in the snow. Who is she? And how did she come to be there? Over 10 episodes, this compelling series moves backwards and forwards in time to reveal the chain of events that led the woman to that point. We meet people she has encountered, members of her family and her friends, all of whom give us clues about what brought her to this place. From the police and paramedics to the nurses and residents in an old people's home,...
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6 Music & BBC Radio 2
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Topics: Russell Brand, Matt Morgan
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Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon & Other Adventures A BBC Radio Collection The godfather of the hard-boiled detective novel, Dashiell Hammett is widely acknowledged as one of America's greatest mystery writers. This collection brings together four BBC radio adaptations of his works, including the iconic The Maltese Falcon, featuring his most famous character: Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon San Francisco, 1928. When his partner is murdered on an assignment, private detective Sam Spade is...
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Topics: Radio, Drama
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John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot in 1, 2, Buckle My Shoe - 5 part (version) story. hercule poirot, poirot, agatha christie, bbc, bbc radio, radio, drama, bbc drama, murder, mystery, english, british, england, uk, united kingdom
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Topics: hercule poirot, poirot, agatha christie, bbc, bbc radio, radio, drama, bbc drama, murder, mystery,...
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The Audio Visuals began with their pilot recording of The Space Wail in 1984. The following three seasons of stories were produced by Bill Baggs between 1985 and 1988. The fourth and final season was produced by Gary Russell from 1989 to 1991. There were plans for a fifth season which were later abandoned. Many of the people working on the Audio Visuals went on to produce more professional, licensed Doctor Who audio dramas for companies like BBV and BIG Finish . Gary Russell...
Topics: doctor who, dr who, dr. who, Doctor Who, Doctor who doctor Who, audio drama
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Two BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Victor Canning’s comic novels about the exploits of a shy Solicitor’s Clerk, starring Richard Griffiths. Edgar Finchley is middle-aged, unassuming and not in the habit of taking holidays - but in these two delightful dramatisations, he unexpectedly discovers the delights of travel as he crosses the Channel to the Continent and explores the English countryside. Dramatised by father-and-son team Eric Merriman (Beyond Our Ken) and Andy Merriman, these whimsical...
Topics: Radio, Drama
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Jan 8, 2020
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Christopher Douglas, Andrew Nickolds & Nick Newman
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Dave Podmore Written by Christopher Douglas, Andrew Nickolds & Nick Newman Podmore began his career with Leicestershire , and he is married to Jackie Podmore, a lap-dancer. He owns a psychotic dog called Saxon. He views cricket as a means to making easy money through match-fixing, benefit nights, appearances at supermarket openings and the aborted attempt to open the Dave Podmore Academy of Cricket Excellence. Before the 2006/7 Ashes series he was appointed sledging coach to...
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Topics: BBC R4 Comedy, Cricket
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A BBC radio docu-drama series relating how forensic criminology helped uncover the facts and truth behind some of the most celebrated murder cases in British history. Presented by Nick Ross 1. THE SURGEON'S KNIFE (broadcast 13 February 1991) In 1935, two bodies are found in a Scottish ravine and Dr. Buck Ruxton's wife and maidservant are missing ... Dr. Buck Ruxton ...Mark Zuber Norman Birket KC... Anthony Bate 2. CABIN 126 (broadcast 20 February 1991) Can you be convicted of murder if...
Topics: BBC, BBC Radio Drama, radio drama, BBC Drama, true crime, British crime, British criminals,...
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In this radical reinterpretation of Arnold Bennett’s classic novels set in the Staffordshire potteries, it’s the 19th Century, and the Industrial Revolution is at full throttle. Only the ruthless thrive in this uncompromising world – and Ephraim Tellwright, and Darius Clayhanger, are both determined to succeed. From humble beginnings, these two self-made men have risen to become wealthy and powerful. Now, they hold the fate of the Five Towns in their hands, passing judgement on those who...
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In & Out Of The Kitchen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q9tb1/episodes/guide Sitcom written by and starring Miles Jupp, charting the life of cookery writer Damien Trench, who lives in Queen's Park with his partner Anthony. Cast Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp Anthony MacIlveny ...... Justin Edwards Damien's Mother ...... Selina Cadell Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey Ian Frobisher ...... Philip Fox
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Topic: BBC R4 Comedy
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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a married couple who met in the Summer of Love and have stayed together ever since. Children of the Sixties, they are still free spirits, drawn together by their love for music and one another. We follow their conversations from the café to the kitchen table, taking in everyday chores, dealing with problems with long-held friendships and tackling their frustrations with each other. With warmth, wit and honesty, they talk about the indignities of ageing (he...
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Topics: Radio, Drama, Comedy
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Comedy drama series by Nigel Williams that charts the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague Starring Jonathan Pryce & Nicholas Le Prevost
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Topic: BBC R4 Comedy
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Jul 21, 2015
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The News Quiz is a weekly topical panel show, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1977. Series 87 was Sandi Toksvig's final season as host.
Topics: Satire, Radio, Comedy, News
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Nov 28, 2022
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When a major financial donor approaches a Manchester charity for housing the homeless, offering them a block of new apartments for the use of those most in need, the organisers think there is a god after all. Using the charity’s fast track access to planning permissions, money is lavished on refurbishing a raft of luxury apartments – a clear statement that even the poor deserve a decent place to live. But it’s only when a local journalist raises the question as to where the benefactor’s...
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Francis Durbridge
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Audio File Quality Avg.: ~126kbps Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery - Francis Durbridge A perfectly ordinary pair of spectacles spells trouble for Paul Temple and his wife Steve as they set off on a trip to Egypt. With Crawford Logan, Gerda Stevenson, Eliza Langland, Lucy Paterson In this 2006 recreation of the 1947 vintage crime serial, Crawford Logan stars as Paul Temple and Gerda Stevenson as Steve. Each episode includes a brief but very interesting discussion with the producer about...
Topics: Francis Durbridge, Paul Temple, Crime, Murder Mystery, Whodunit, BBC Radio
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John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception. He has been called "a giant of American letters” and is acknowledged to be one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Presented here is a collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of six of Steinbeck’s best known works, together with readings of three of his...
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Three BBC radio productions of major works by James Joyce. Ulysses In this full-cast dramatisation of Joyce’s epic modernist novel, the stories of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom combine as they meander through Dublin in the course of one day, 16 June 1904. Andrew Scott stars as Stephen, with Henry Goodman as Bloom, Niamh Cusack as Molly Bloom and Stephen Rea as the Narrator. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man An abridged reading of James Joyce's autobiographical masterpiece...
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BBC Comedy Radio Series
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Topics: BBC, Radio, Hancock's Half Hour, Tony, Anthony Hancock, Sid James
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Nirvana
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My favourite Nirvana bootleg compilation, taking in four CDs of highlights from the vast collection of non-official material. The CDs are sorted based around the type of recording they are. And note, for those of you who like a source and want to hear more - I'm linking to the full material from there if they've been uploaded. Track listing: Disc 1 - Home Demos Montage Of Heck (Short) [4-Track Tape Collage 1988] Sound Of Dentage [ Fecal Matter Demo 12/85 ] Bambi Slaughter [Fecal Matter Demo...
Topics: nirvana, punk rock, bootleg, flac, compilation
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BBC Radio productions of JG Farrell's celebrated trilogy of historical novels. Acclaimed author JG Farrell came to fame with his Empire Trilogy, which explores the collapse of British colonialism and its repercussions in three different countries. The first book in the series, Troubles, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Lost Man Booker Prize, while the second, The Siege of Krishnapur, was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction. Included here are BBC Radio adaptations of the entire...
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Nov 20, 2021
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Dorothy L Sayers
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Audio File Quality: 128kbps Strong Poison - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Lord Peter Wimsey attends the trial of Harriet Vane, a young mystery writer accused of poisoning her former lover with arsenic. The evidence against her seems overwhelming, but the shrewd, debonair sleuth harbours doubts over her guilt. British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L. Sayers. Strong Poison was first published in...
Topics: Dorothy L Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey, Crime, Murder Mystery, Whodunit, BBC Radio
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Peter Elliott Hayes
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BBC Radio science fiction drama written by Peter Elliott Hayes and broadcast in 6 episodes in 1961. What is the mysterious cylinder unearthed on a remote Scottish island and is it connected to the radio signals emanating from deep space?
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Topics: radio, science fiction, sci-fi, Orbit One Zero
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Two BBC Radio full-cast crime dramas by David Ashton: Master of the Mint & Nemesis. Counterfeiters, spies, murderers... and Isaac Newton must use his brilliant mind to defeat them all in this pair of full-cast historical crime dramas. In Master of the Mint , a new figure of justice is walking the streets of 17th-century London—Isaac Newton, scientific genius. After thirty years as a Cambridge academic, Newton takes up a new post at the Royal Mint in the Tower of London. But the work...
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A mysterious puzzle appears online. A radio thriller about finding a killer whilst finding yourself… Cast: Sabrina – Anya Chalotra Benny – Chance Perdomo Harry – Enzo Cilenti Isabella – Hera Hilmar Mr Ahmed – Nabil Elouahabi Dr Usman – Cyril Nri Efrat – Olivia Popica Lucy – Molly Harris Other parts: Clare Corbett, Stephen Mitchell, Philip Desmeules Production Team: Written & Created by Brett Neichin with additional writing by Janina Matthewson Script editing by Mike Walker...
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Francis Durbridge
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Audio: 320kbps from high quality source Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery - Francis Durbridge Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated...
Topics: Crime Mystery, Geneva, Whodunit, Classic, BBC Radio
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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Firewall A thrilling landmark adaptation set in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell universe. Veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher has a new mission recruiting and training the next generation of Splinter Cell operatives for the National Security Agency's covert action division- including his own daughter, Sarah. But now, former Fourth Echelon agent, Charlie Cole needs their help. A lethal assassin from Fisher's past has returned from the dead on a mission of...
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Three BBC Radio performances of works by the great G. K. Chesterton. Best known as the creator of clerical detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton was a prolific and talented writer in virtually every area of literature: from novels, poetry and short stories to plays, biographies and essays. A noted thinker, controversialist, raconteur and wit, he has influenced authors from Neil Gaiman to Jorge Luis Borges. This collection comprises his two most famous novels, The Man Who Was Thursday and The...
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Our Brave Boys (British radio comedy drama). Set at the Ministry of Defence . Series 1-4. The series were recorded during Tony Blair's time as British Prime Minister so there are topical jokes about him (and world events), etc. With: Assistant Under Secretary Zelda Maclean - Fiona Shaw Colonel George - Martin Jarvis Wing Commander Bryan Thomas - Christopher Neame Commander Bill Knox Jonathan Hyde (series 1 only), Christopher Godwin Chief Petty Officer Grieves - Peter Capaldi our brave boys ,...
Topics: our brave boys, bbc, radio, comedy, bbc radio, bbc comedy, drama, bbc drama, english, england,...
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George Lucas - Brian Daley
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Audio: 320kbps from original source Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - George Lucas/Brian Daley Part three of the NPR Series from the 1980s and 1990s What is interesting for Star Wars fans is that the radio series has expanded the story by incorporating many new scenes. Details can be found by following the Wikipedia link below Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(radio_series)
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Topics: NPR, Radio Drama, Star Wars, Jedi
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Leslie Charteris
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BBC Radio adaptations of three adventures of Leslie Charteris' international-acclaimed adventurer, "The Robin Hood of Modern Crime" ... Simon Templar aka THE SAINT. Simon Templar ... Paul Rhys Patricia Holm ... Kim Thomson Roger Conway ... Charles Simpson Peter Quentin ... Jonathan Keeble Orace ... John Hollis Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal ... John Baddeley 1) THE SAINT OVERBOARD Loretta Page ... Patsy Kensitt Ivaloff ... Charles Simpson Intruder ... Jonathan Keeble Vogel ......
Topics: BBC, BBC Radio, BBC Drama, BBC Radio Drama, radio drama, action drama, adventure drama, action,...
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The definitive collection of dramatisations and readings of Patricia Highsmith's finest fiction. A master of the psychological crime genre, Patricia Highsmith is most famous for her quintet of best-selling Ripley novels, and her groundbreaking thriller Strangers on a Train (notably adapted as a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock). The five Ripley BBC dramas can be accessed separately, on this page: https://archive.org/details/TTUBBCR4 This extensive collection encompasses some of her best-known...
Topics: Drama, Thriller, Thriller, Drama, Radio
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Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
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BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch show written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor in 21 episodes that ran in 1981 under the title Cliche and then in 1983 & 1984 as Son Of Cliche . It starred Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton, as well as Chris Barrie who later appeared in the TV series Red Dwarf which was developed by Grant and Naylor from one of their Son of Cliche sketches.
Topics: radio, comedy, sitcom, Grant and Naylor
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Audio File Quality: 128kbps Gaudy Night - Dorothy L Sayers Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back . . . When she attends her Oxford reunion, known as the 'Gaudy,' at sedate Shrewsbury College, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters—including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in...
Topics: Lord Peter Wimsey, Ian Carmichael, Dorothy L Sayers, Crime, BBC Radio Drama, Whodunit
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A Case for Dr Morelle Thirteen Full-Cast Vintage Crime Dramas By Ernest Dudley Classic crime dramas featuring Dr Morelle - 'the man you love to hate'! Psychiatrist-Detective Dr Morelle is arrogant, sarcastic and rude - but when it comes to catching criminals, he is unparalleled. Using deduction, psychological profiling and his keen, analytical mind, he solves cases ranging from blackmail to murder, aided by his devoted and long-suffering secretary Miss Frayle. Over the course of this series,...
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Simon Brett
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Audio File Quality Avg.: ~178kbps A Doubtful Death - Charles Paris Crime Comedy with the return of the loveably louche actor-cum-amateur detective. By Jeremy Front From a story by Simon Brett CAST Charles ..... Bill Nighy Frances ..... Suzanne Burden Maurice ..... Jon Glover Dan ..... Will Kirk Vicky ..... Jessica Turner Tomasz ...
Topics: Simon Brett, Charles Paris, Bill Nighy, Hamlet, Crime Comedy, BBC Radio Drama
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Agatha Christie
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Audio Quality: 185 kbps Ordeal by Innocence - Agatha Christie A stranger visits the the Argyle family with good news about their late mother's murder. Or so he thinks. Agatha Christie’s murder mystery was a favourite from her own works Dramatised in three-parts by Joy Wilkinson. Director: Mary Peate First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014. CAST Calgary ...... Mark Umbers Gwenda ...... Jacqueline Defferary Kirsten ...... Wanda Opalinska Hester ...... Phoebe Waller-Bridge Jacko .........
Topics: Crime, Whodunit, Agatha Christie, BBC Radio
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Mark Tavener, BBC Radio 4
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The complete first and second series of Mark Tavener’s BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller set in a crisis-ridden Cambridge college. When prominent don and celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti dies after dining at High Table, his colleague Gilbert suspects foul play and invites his former student Simon Harrison, a disillusioned health and safety officer, to investigate. Meanwhile, Simon’s former girlfriend Zoe, a freelance journalist, arrives to write an article about Devanti’s death, reopening...
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Daniel Defoe was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He is seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain. A prolific and versatile writer, Defoe produced more than three hundred works - books, pamphlets, and journals - on diverse topics, including politics, crime,...
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عدتهم تسبيح وتحميد لله عز وجل
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الدولة الاسلامية تويتر الدولة الاسلامية 2018 الدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام الدولة الاسلامية اصدار الدولة الاسلامية اصدارات الدولة الاسلامية حق الدولة الاسلامية في عهد النبوة doc الدولة الاسلامية تويتر اعماق الدولة الاسلامية يوتيوب الدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام...
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Topics: الدولة_الاسلامية, اناشيد_الدولة_الاسلامية,...
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Audio File Quality: 128kbps Busman's Honeymoon - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Dorothy L Sayers' upper-crust sleuth has married at last, but his honeymoon bliss is shattered when the dead body of the house's previous owner turns up in the cellar. Stars Ian Ca Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War. Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC...
Topics: Dorothy L Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey, Ian Carmichael, Crime, Murder Mystery, Whodunit
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One of the greatest English authors of the 19th century, George Eliot is renowned for her realistic storytelling and insight into the human psyche. This collection presents BBC Radio dramatisations of her five most famous novels: Adam Bede Summer 1799 and in the Staffordshire village of Hayslope, one of Lisbeth Bede's sons has marriage on his mind.... Eliot's haunting story of love betrayed and rewarded. Adam ...... Thomas Arnold Lisbeth ...... Ann Scott-Jones Seth .........
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A collection of twenty-five beautifully crafted, terrifying and intriguing tales of spine-tingling psychological terror and suspense from Ruth Rendell. A Case of Coincidence read by George Baker A Needle for the Devil read by Isla Blair A Glowing Future read by George Baker A Pair of Yellow Lilies read by Penelope Keith Catamount read by Jenny Sterlin Dying Happy read by Penelope Keith Fair Exchange read by Jenny Sterlin Long Live the Queen read by Penelope Keith In All Honesty read by Sandra...
Topics: Radio, Drama
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04/20
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Nicholas Briggs
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The Prisoner January 16th, 1967...A secret agent resigns from MI6, then wakes up to find himself imprisoned in 'The Village' - a bizarre community with a cheery veneer, but an underbelly of mystery and threat. All occupants of The Village have numbers instead of names, with our secret agent forced to accept the mantel of Number Six. The authorities running this Village are intent on discovering why Number Six resigned - but it's a secret he steadfastly refuses to divulge. As the drama...
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